GHOSTING
Etymology
Noun
ghosting (countable and uncountable, plural ghostings)
The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection from (possibly hostile) outside inspectors.
(electronics, television) The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.
(computing) Ghost imaging.
A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.
(computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.
(slang) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2014]
The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
Verb
ghosting
present participle of ghost
Source: Wiktionary
GHOST
Ghost, n. Etym: [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gast breath,
spirit, soul; akin to OS. g spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and
prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]
1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser.
2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a
spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak.
I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost.
Coleridge.
3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a
glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.
4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the
surfaces of one or more lenses. Ghost moth (Zoöl.), a large European
moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male,
and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift.
– Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter;
(Theol.) the third person in the Trinity.
– To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire.
And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer.
Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Gen. xlix. 33.
Ghost, v. i.
Definition: To die; to expire. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Ghost, v. t.
Definition: To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.]
Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition